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We invited the Internet Explorer team to walk us through some of the new features and highlights of the
Internet Explorer 9 Beta. You can find more preview videos
here.

Jane Kim, Senior Program Manager for Internet Explorer, shows how people can pin sites they use often on their taskbar and access them quickly and easily. This presentation also shows how these sites look and feel like windows applications by using jump lists
and thumbbar tool bar buttons. Internet Explorer 9 Beta and information about other interesting features are available at
http://www.beautyoftheweb.com.

For me, IE9's most exciting features are the ones that go the extra mile in integrating with the core OS/UI experience. This is one of them. I'm also intriqued by the taskbar icon overlays which I learned about on Paul Thurott's blog. I hope you have
a show that covers overlays/notifications in detail.

Where do WebSlices appear in IE9? And can they be pinned to the taskbar? I like keeping tabs on Channel 9 via IE webslice. It would be cool to be able to preview a webslice when you hover over a pinned Channel 9 taskbar icon.

The idea of pinning websites to taskbar is great, but I find it to be a mismatch that you can open the website from the taskbar and navigate away to some other website. It does not work like an app in the true sense. May be they should hide the address bar
for pinned sites. I understand that they may not have done that for security reasons but hope they can figure it out.

By hiding the address bar it will function more like a desktop app, any external links should open in a new window, if you open in the same window then the taskbar will continue to show the site icon (say twitter) but the user would have moved on to say
Amazon which is confusing.

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